Stately, distinguished, and a little stuffy, Baron Theodore Morgenstern of Blue Hills is an oil and steel tycoon whose fortunes exploded when he was a young man, allowing him to amass quite a bit of wealth and start a large family over the last few decades. The kind and radiant Tomasina is the youngest daughter of Baron Morgenstern, and most of polite society considers the match between the wealthy baron's daughter and the old money of the Swiftwind family to be a wise one. Arthur Swiftwind very much loves Theodore's daughter, though the two men do not care for each other much.